The Successes and Failures of an Online Marketer

So far my summer has not been very productive in terms of online affiliate marketing. I’ve only been working about one day a week and to be honest I’m not too upset about that. I wanted to enjoy my summer and get outside for a lot of basketball, beach volleyball, soccer and blading and so far I’ve been able to do a lot of that and also hit the bar on occasion. After about a month and a half of slacking off the urge to be productive has hit me and I am considering creating a large sports betting website.

The World Cup really pushed me in this direction because I really have no website that will benefit from all of the World Cup attention around the globe. I have a champions league betting website, but that won’t generate sign ups and neither will my various nhl and nba websites. This fact along with what I’ve been hearing about google possibly giving better rankings to larger branded sites rather than the super targetted mini sites I’ve been making has really made me consider creating a large sports betting portal.

At the moment I’m trying to figure out a great domain name that is brandable and memorable and I have enlisted the help of friends and family to give me their take on some domain names I’m considering. If I do make this website I want to do it right so I will also be buying a custom made template and will be writing over 50 pages of content pre-launch. I just think there are so many extra things you can do with a large website that you can’t really do with a minisite (contests, mailing lists, etc).

In other news I’ve been plugging away at the CPAlead websites and have been making ok money. It’s enough for me to continue pumping out the websites, but it’s nothing spectacular like I was hoping it could be. The websites don’t take long to create or rank for though so it’s still worthwhile for me now until I find something that takes up that time and is more profitable.

Also, this month I’m going to be trying to build more links to my PKR bonus code and Full Tilt referral code websites. They are both at the bottom of the first page or top of the second for their main terms and I hope to improve on that by the end of the month.

Anyways, that’s enough for me right now. I hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather and your websites are doing well…even if it is without much TLC at this time of the year .